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this major story was written by bart gelman who joins me now from the "washington post." thank you very much. fascinating detail here. first of all, you've detailed that it's $52.6 billion, 69% goes to the nsa, cia and the national reconnaissance center. how have you assessed from all that you have been reporting here the value we're getting, the bank for the buck? what are we doing well and not so well? >> they have some fairly frank internal report cards here. they talk about where they think they've had successes and where they have critical gaps. of course, the president and congress are most concerned about the gaps to start with because there are things that they need to know to do their jobs and they don't know them. for example, there are five of those critical gaps with regard to the north korean nuclear program, a subject of a great deal of concern to this government. there is no other country that has as many as five. there are others that have three or four. so the whole nuclear counter proliferation thing, which involves weapons of greatest concern to the uni
this major story was written by bart gelman who joins me now from the "washington post." thank you very much. fascinating detail here. first of all, you've detailed that it's $52.6 billion, 69% goes to the nsa, cia and the national reconnaissance center. how have you assessed from all that you have been reporting here the value we're getting, the bank for the buck? what are we doing well and not so well? >> they have some fairly frank internal report cards here. they talk about...
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news week broadcasting for the local then "washington post"-owned cbs affiliated station here in washington, d.c. and when they -- i had an agreement with the owner that if they ended up selling the station here, which they ended up doing anticipating a supreme court decision on cross ownership of media concentration that never happened, when they ended up selling to a detroit station, detroit owner, they let me out of my contract just on a handshake because -- to come to nbc. 35 years ago. because i came under the understanding that i would only work for the graham family. that was how close the connection was, ruth. >> i think all of us have that -- who have been around for a while any way, interest that personal connection with the graham family. i have a column that should be on washingtonpost.com later this afternoon talking a little bit about that personal connection. and that is why i think in the newsroom and to some degree outside there is trust in this decision, that it is in the "washington post's" best interests because we've had so many years of seeing the graham family make de
news week broadcasting for the local then "washington post"-owned cbs affiliated station here in washington, d.c. and when they -- i had an agreement with the owner that if they ended up selling the station here, which they ended up doing anticipating a supreme court decision on cross ownership of media concentration that never happened, when they ended up selling to a detroit station, detroit owner, they let me out of my contract just on a handshake because -- to come to nbc. 35...
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the conservative columnist from "the washington post" and i respect charles. i don't quote him very often. said this is suicide. suicide is generally fatal. >> what about the recess and these town halls that members are going to be going to in the next couple of weeks? >> my attitude about that is if you don't have to have a town ma hall meet, don't have one. >> that's pretty honest. >> don't have one. send out notice to your neighbors and your constituents and say great to be back in the state and i hope to see you at the next fish fry. i think the town hall meetings are going to put pressure on members of congress particularly in the house to as bob just said, you know, not cooperate. and we're looking at a government shutdown come between september and october. i think it is a real possibility because they got to prove a point. they got to make a point. i think they are wise to say you do this, you'll do it at your own peril setting up an argument for 2014 you may not win. >> you also have the drama going on in kentucky. here you have a white house chief of
the conservative columnist from "the washington post" and i respect charles. i don't quote him very often. said this is suicide. suicide is generally fatal. >> what about the recess and these town halls that members are going to be going to in the next couple of weeks? >> my attitude about that is if you don't have to have a town ma hall meet, don't have one. >> that's pretty honest. >> don't have one. send out notice to your neighbors and your constituents and...
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i'm andrea mitchell in washington. state department is keeping 15 diplomatic posts closed for the rest of the week and closing four more today. joining me now from washington, nbc justice correspondent pete williams and from cairo, nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engel. first to you, richard, in the field. we know we're talking about unspecified threats emanating from yemen and possibly targeting something in yemen but they don't know what the specific targets are. they don't know specifically the timing. what are you hearing in cairo and throughout the region? >> well, we're hearing confusing picture. we think we know a good amount about this threat. we know it is coming from yemen. we know it is coming from al qaeda and the iranian peninsula. we know that welcome and the iranian peninsula has some very dangerous, very important leaders who are tied directly to the top leadership of al qaeda central, including a man who was formerly osama bin laden's secretary. we know that there was chatter. but we don't know
i'm andrea mitchell in washington. state department is keeping 15 diplomatic posts closed for the rest of the week and closing four more today. joining me now from washington, nbc justice correspondent pete williams and from cairo, nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engel. first to you, richard, in the field. we know we're talking about unspecified threats emanating from yemen and possibly targeting something in yemen but they don't know what the specific targets are. they don't know...